Blessings & Sudden Intimacies - memoir by Greg Stidham, MD

In this book, Greg Stidham recalls the twists and turns of his journey through premed and English and the University of Notre Dame, medical school, and training finally in pediatrics and pediatric critical care. Along the way the reader meets his friends, shares his happy and his sad moments, and especially experiences the Blessings and Sudden Intimacies, gifts his journey had handed him in the form of those friends, family, and especially the patients and their families as he cared for them over a 30-year career. There is humor, sadness, and occasional touch of anger--an entire range of emotions--along the journey, and Dr. Stidham shares these with his readers.